Motivational Quotes

Government

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Government

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic